Retirements
17192 Major Sylvain Leblanc (CMR ’90) will take his release from the CF after 23 years of loyal service. Maj Leblanc enrolled on June 25th 1985. Maj Leblanc started his career at Collège militaire royal du Canada in St-Jean, where he completed his degree B Sc (Computer Science). He completed the Basic Parachutist Course while…
We get emails
We received the following e-mail from a “life-time” member of the Club who graduated from RMC in the last 10 years or so. If there are any readers out there who may be able to steer this young man in the right direction – please contact Bill Oliver and I will send the necessary coordinates….…
Reunions
11th Annual Legacy Dinner Thursday, 2 October 2008, 1830h Class of 1998 Reunion details can be found at http://homepage.mac.com/jennifer_purdy/ Reunion Committee’s email is rmc.class98reunion@gmail.com Come join your classmates on facebook.com to see current contact information and photos under the “RMC Class of 98 Reunion Group” Plan on attending during the Oct 3-5th weekend in Kingston…
In This Issue 24
We have embarked on a Club membership drive. Please help us: Ex cadets; Current & former staff members (civilian & military); parents & friends; current & past students – including undergraduate and graduate level are all eligible and encouraged to join us! You can call us toll free 1-888-386-3762. Online http://www.rmcclub.ca/Membership.htm Contact us by e-mail…
Top Headlines
CANFORGEN 123/08 CLS 123 081825Z JUL 08 JUL-08CANFORGEN 123/08 CLS 016/08 081825Z JUL 08 LAUNCH OF THE FIRST ANNUAL CANADA ARMY RUN 21 SEP 08 RMC Expected to be Big Participants!! (More details to be provided in future e-Veritas) REFS: DMCS 50041 11 FEB 08 BACKGROUND. THE LAUNCH OF THE FIRST ANNUAL CANADA ARMY RUN…
What’s Happening At RMC
….. Helicopters were buzzing low over RMC and CFB (K) last Friday… and one by one, soldiers including about 12 RMC Officer Cadets rapelled out of them onto a field at the base. It looked like something out of a movie… but no stuntmen were involved with these high risk manoeuvres. All in all, close…
Ex-Cadets in the News
Diplomatic Appointments – Peter Lundy (BA Honours [History and Political Science], Royal Military College of Canada, 1986 15539 Peter Lundy (BA Honours [History and Political Science], Royal Military College of Canada, ’86; MBA [International Business], University of British Columbia, 1993) joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1993, having previously served with…
Catching Up With the News
CANADA DAY with the RCN at PEARL HARBOUR .My Newsletters from China (#6 will follow shortly) found their way through the Victoria Branch of the RMC Club to 22866 Lt(N) Kathryn Ward (RMC ’04), Logistics Officer aboard HMCS OTTAWA. Kathryn kindly invited me to visit her ship when it visited Shanghai. I could not do…
Where are they now?
12855 Colonel Robert Perron, CD (CMR RRMC ’81) is currently on the Advanced Training List at the Canadian Forces Language School as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) designate. He served as the Director of the Cadet programme since being promoted to his current rank on 4 August 2003. He joined the Collège Militaire Royal de…
Extra Innings
Royal Military Colleges Club of Canada – Manitoba Branch -Birchall Leadership Award It is with great honour that the Manitoba Branch of the Royal Military Colleges Club of Canada presents the name of the 2008 recipient of the Birchall Leadership Award: General R.R. (Ray) Henault, CMM CD S 146 General Henault, former Chief of Defence…
Flashback | Rétrospective
700 Major Kenneth Churchill Craige Taylor (RMC 1905), D.S.O. 29th Bn C.E.F. was killed on Sept. 11th, 1916 in the advance on Courcellette. He was gazetted Major shortly before his death. He entered the Royal Military College, Kingston in 1905 and graduated in 1908 with the highest standing in his year, thus entitling him to…
Deaths | deces
RCNC 261 Walter Tilden – 1945 TILDEN, Walter Benedict CM., C.St.J., B.Comm., D.Sc.Mil. (Hon.) Died at home in Toronto on July 9, 2008 soon after his 80th Birthday. He is survived by his wife Jane (Brenchley); his children Bruce, David, Jill, Roger, Joanne, Robert and his wife Donna; his grandchildren Emma, Molly, Benjamin, and William;…